The Ultimate Unauthorized Resource to the Stories Behind Lost - Updated Through Season 4!Lost is a complex and mysterious tale, one that draws on many sources for its themes and ideas - sources you must understand to become an advanced Lost expert. Lost's Buried Treasures is the ultimate unauthorized guide to the ideas that have influenced the show and its writers - and completely updated through season 4.Readers can use this comprehensive handbook to discover new connections and unearth t...

Is The Wire better than Breaking Bad? Is Cheers better than Seinfeld? What's the best high school show ever made? Why did Moonlighting really fall apart? Was the Arrested Development Netflix season brilliant or terrible?For twenty years-since they shared a TV column at Tony Soprano's hometown newspaper-critics Alan Sepinwall and Matt Zoller Seitz have been debating these questions and many more, but it all ultimately boils down ...

More of the Pulitzer Prize–winning film critic's most scathing reviews.A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length collects more than 200 of his reviews from 2006 to 2012 in which he gave movies two stars or fewer. Known for his fair-minded and well-written film reviews, Roger is at his razor-sharp humorous best when skewering bad movies. Consider this opener for the one-star Your Highness:" Your Highness is a juvenile excrescence th...

Here are the essentials for any crime genre writer, as offered by Gene Grossman, author of the popular 15-book series of Peter Sharp Legal Mysteries.Learn the inside tips used to create the mystery and suspense that will greatly improve your book.Discussed are various plot techniques including Proper Murder and the Ticking Clock. These tips can help any author in the genre.

Discover the Difference Between a So-So Manuscript and a Novel Readers Can't ForgetWe've all read them: novels by our favorite authors that disappoint. Uninspired and lifeless, we wonder what happened. Was the author in a hurry? Did she have a bad year? Has he lost interest altogether?Something similar is true of a great many unpublished manuscripts. They are okay stories that never take flight. They don't grip the imagination, let alone the heart. They mer...

There are so many fantastic authors and great books out there that sometimes it’s hard to know where to begin. Start Here solves that problem; it tells you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Start Here Vol. 2 helps by showing you how to read your way into 25 amazing authors from a wide range of genres--from classics to contemporary fiction to comics. Each chapter presents an author, explains why...

The first book in the critically acclaimed, bestselling Finding Lost series brings you an analysis of seasons 1 and 2 in one volume.If youre feeling as lost as the castaways on the show, Finding Lost is the crucial companion guide to help you unravel the mysteries of the island. This is the only book that offers an episode-by-episode guide to the first two seasons of Lost, following the developments of the characters, the plots, and the various connections fans must make to keep up. Findin...

“Nikki Stafford is a godsend to Lost enthusiasts in particular and TV lovers in general. Ive written about TV for several years and have always valued her opinion and insights on all things television.” — Amanda Cuda Connecticut Post Author Nikki Stafford has established herself in the Lost fandom through her comprehensive episode analysis which has helped thousands of viewers watch the show with a deeper understanding season after season. This final installment of the Finding Lost series ...

Our first issue! All of the content will be available for purchase as an eBook (PDF, EPUB, MOBI) on November 4, 2014. The free online content will be released in 2 stages- half on November 4, and half on December 2.Featuring new fiction by Maria Dahvana Headley, Kat Howard, Max Gladstone, Amelia Beamer, Ken Liu, and Christopher Barzak, classic fiction by Jay Lake, essays by Sarah Kuhn, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Christopher J Garcia, plus a Worldcon Roundtable featuring Emma England, Mi...

Nas on language, Cat Power on looking inward, Spike Jonze on loving what you do, and Kim Gordon on feeling the flow. These are just a few of the indie stars and surprising insights collected in this gorgeous book by Huck magazine. Since launching in 2006, Huck has been at the vanguard of London's thriving independent publishing scene and has grown into an internationally distributed bi-monthly, with editions available on newsstands in 20 countries worldwide. Bringing toge...

"The Finding Lost series is quite simply the best Lost resource for fans. Not only is the information concise and complete, Nikki Stafford's commentary is insightful, relevant, and entertaining. No matter how well you know the show, Stafford's analysis of the themes and symbolism of Lost will renew your desire to go back and watch over, and over again." - Jon "DocArtz" Lachonis, BuddyTV.com Lost , the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning hit television show, has become renowned for its comp...

Trivia-on-Book: Ready Player One: by Ernest ClineAuthor Ernest Cline takes his readers on an adventurous and entertaining ride to the not-so-distant future. He touches the right chords by injecting the 1980's into the plot with a fast-paced and engrossing storyline that forces the reader to toy with the idea of a virtual world's clash with the real. John Scalzi, the renowned sci-fi writer, referred to Ready Player One as “nerdgasm”.**You may have r...